Jacob Winn
In 1947, the United States acknowledged that air power had fundamentally changed warfare by creating the Department of the Air Force.
Lawmakers saw the need for a service that could independently train, equip and prepare for the full spectrum of air operations.
They foresaw that controlling the air domain had become one of the ends of war, not just a means of controlling land and sea. Despite the “Revolt of the Admirals” — prompted in part by the planned creation of the department — the re-organization succeeded. Today, the lack of an independent air domain service would be unthinkable to most policymakers.
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